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Looks promising. Server-centric like BackupPC.
Looks promising. Server-centric like BackupPC.
* Does not support storing repo on Samba FS (because create symlinks) :-(


=== Other ===
=== Other ===

Revision as of 20:39, 7 May 2017

How?

List of backup software.

Attic

Maybe best to consider its fork instead: BorgBackup.

BackupPC

See BackupPC.

BorgBackup

See BorgBackup.

Borg is actually a fork of Attic.

With interesting comments, config... Also mention cloud solution rsync.net with support for Borg/Attic and ZFS.

Bup

See Bup.

Burp

See Burp.

First impressions
  • Protocol 1 appears fast, but doesn't do cross-client deduplication. Protocol 2 is still experimental, and is very slow.

Obnam

Tutorial, manual.
Reviews
Pros
  • Can be tuned to make it much faster (up to 10x, with extra memory though) [1]
Cons
  • Slow with small files [2]
  • Very slow, in particular large backup [3], [4].

SimpleSnap

SimpleSnap is a tool to backup ZFS snapshots easily.

Pros:

  • Very fast snapshot (25s).

Cons

  • Requires ZFS
  • Not cross-machine deduplication.

Speed seems very interesting. But how setup ZFS? Maybe some hints in this benchmark from same author.

UrBackup

UrBackup.

Looks promising. Server-centric like BackupPC.

  • Does not support storing repo on Samba FS (because create symlinks) :-(

Other

How well?

List of backup reviews:

Review Bacula, Amanda, Backupninja, Backuppc, and UrBackup. Also cite Rsnapshot, rdiff-backup, Burp, Duplicity, SafeKeep, DREBS.
Attic wins hands down on big data set for backup, and in all cases for restore (much much faster).
Both looks similar. Attic a bit faster.
Compare features of many different backup software. See also update from User:Level323.
Issue tracker on Borg to compare it with alternatives.
Mainly compare Obnam and Attic/Borg.
Compare ext4, S3QL, SDFS, zfs-fuse (fastest).
Very long list of backup software with Pros and Cons.

What?

A backup checklist.

On Linux

  • /home directory
  • /etc directory
  • /usr/local directory
  • /root directory

In addition:

  • Get a copy of crontab (although they are in /var. For each user:
crontab -l
  • Copy all mysql database (although they are in /var and /etc.
sudo su -
mysqldump -u root -p --all-databases > mysql-$hostname.dump